WWE Monday Night RAW heads to Knoxville, Tennessee tonight for the first red brand episode after Backlash, and this is the kind of fallout show that cannot afford to feel like filler. Roman Reigns survived Jacob Fatu at Backlash and retained the World Heavyweight Championship, but he did not walk out looking untouchable. Fatu lost … Read more
Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown was a busy, important and uneven stop on the road to Backlash — the kind of episode where WWE moved a lot of pieces forward, but also exposed some of the same creative habits that keep holding the product back. Cody Rhodes returned to the ring, Ricky Saints made … Read more
The SmackDown After Mania should have felt like a reset. Instead, it felt like a company trying to convince itself it had momentum while terrible WWE release news hung over the entire night. As mentioned in my LNC Wrestling article on the WWE releases, that news broke right before SmackDown went on the air last … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown After Mania has the job of turning WrestleMania 42 fallout into the next chapter for the blue brand. This is not a show built around a stacked match card. It is built around consequences. Rhea Ripley arrives as the new WWE Women’s Champion, Trick Williams celebrates becoming United States Champion … Read more
WrestleMania Night 1 had the kind of card that looked loaded on paper, but the actual show ended up feeling more uneven than explosive. WWE packed this Las Vegas opener with title changes, major returns, a celebrity-heavy main event, and one closing angle that clearly points straight toward Backlash, but the through line of the … Read more
WrestleMania 42 Night 1 arrives tonight with a card that looks stronger on paper than the road to it has felt at times. WWE is bringing seven matches into WrestleMania Saturday, with Cody Rhodes defending the Undisputed WWE Championship against Randy Orton in the advertised headliner, Stephanie Vaquer putting the Women’s World Championship on the … Read more
Last night’s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown was the kind of show that gave WWE plenty of headline moments while also leaving behind a lot of frustration once everything settled. On paper, the blue brand had a lot going for it. Sami Zayn won the United States Championship. Cody Rhodes returned. Jacob Fatu and … Read more
SmackDown has reached the point on the road to WrestleMania 42 where one great story is carrying a lot of unfinished business behind it. That is what makes tonight’s show so important. Randy Orton has become the most dangerous man on the blue brand, Cody Rhodes is officially returning after Orton’s brutal betrayal, Drew McIntyre … Read more
March is Women’s History Month, and The Bella Twins are one of those careers that forces an honest conversation. Not “were they the best workers of their era?” but what did they change? Because Nikki and Brie Bella changed the way women’s wrestling was packaged, consumed, marketed, and eventually mainstreamed. They weren’t just part of … Read more
The biggest development in Nikki and Brie Bella’s WWE comeback is no longer the surprise return, the immediate title opportunity, or the questions about how quickly they jumped into the women’s tag team picture. The real story is what Nikki and Brie announced on Thursday’s episode of The Nikki & Brie Show: they have signed … Read more
